Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
Dan Maffei -
I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
Laura Mvula -
I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
Sam Brownback -
My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
Aaron Carter -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
Candy Crowley -
Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
Warren Rudman -
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson -
I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
Sam Altman
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Irving Kirsch -
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Orison Swett Marden -
I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
M. Stanton Evans -
I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
Patrick Wang -
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
Frances Beinecke
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Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
Peter Farrelly -
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson